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Tricky Walsh
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I do art. I hate meta.
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I'm putting some things in the yellow boxes later this month in Mawson's place, Hobart.
Image of a small copper hand loom with an incomplete tapestry of a grey cube in a pink background Screenshot of artist statement. Tricky Walsh stutterloom V2, 2024/2025 The loom has its associations to computing through its punch-card programming, its adherence to patterns and the way it deconstructs information into bits or pixels. I think a lot about how our technological literacy waxes and wanes. How we have gone from understanding a physical thing because we can see how its parts interact, to being faced with microscopic circuitry which performs abstractions and presents them as almost-magic. To the point that when it fails, our only option seems to be a quick resuscitation, hoping, sometimes praying, for recovery. Artist statement continues. Before the loom, weaving was a slow and laborious process. I undertook a residency at the Australian Tapestry Workshop last year where I learned the fundamental basics of weaving by hand. I like learning new things because you get to make mistakes. We’re actively discouraged from doing that after a while, as we develop skills and perfect them. I’m not fond of perfection, to be honest, because it feels finite. There’s nowhere left to go. So sometimes I make things that are illogical, like this stutterloom, which is a machine whose function is to weave, obviously, but under the duress of errors and glitches. Or maybe it’s to actively make mistakes for a world that focusses exclusively on accelerating outcomes. Maybe it’s a kind of protest. A strike. _______ Augmented reality is embedded within the tapestries which you can access through the Artivive App, via this QR code. Remember to tag @creativehobart and @trickywalsh if you post about the work online.
February 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Just doing some conservative painting for the building before it gets put on the market. Business up front. Party in the back. Mulletbuilding.
An aluminium ladder sits in front of a corner of a building where a pink wall meets a blue wall. The colours are reflected in the ladder and the window on the pink wall, which is now blue.
February 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Copper loom #secondcrushslightlymorecomplicated
February 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Making some new copper looms.
#firstcrush
February 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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I just tried to lift this 2.5m ladder over my head which was unsuccessful. But I have an excellent stupidity lump to remind me not to do it again in a hurry. This app may well chart my imminent downfall. #renovating #BUILDINGLOOKSGREAT
January 28, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Here's me using up all the joint compound in new Norfolk.
A room with fresh plasterboard and a lot of joint compound. It's kind of a mess tbh.
January 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM